Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Biodiversity and Chemical Mediation -- 1.1. Systematic and integrative taxonomy from chemical ecology -- 1.2. Scent communication between sexual partners -- 1.3. Scent communication between species -- 1.4. Chemical mimicry, to enhance reproduction -- 1.5. A dialog that sometimes evolves into an interaction network -- 1.6. Conclusions -- 1.7. Bibliography -- 2. Chemical Ecology: An Integrative and Experimental Science -- 2.1. Semiochemicals -- 2.2. Chemical ecology in multitrophic networks and co-evolution between species -- 2.3. Contribution of chemical ecology to the study of tropical plant diversification -- 2.4. When chemical ecology sheds light on the process of biological invasion - an example demonstrating integration between chemistry and ecology -- 2.5. Protection is in the air: how plants defend themselves against phytophagous insects through VOC emissions -- 2.6. Conclusions -- 2.7. Bibliography -- 3. Scents in the Social Life of Non-Human and Human Primates -- 3.1. Primate societies and their complex systems of communication -- 3.2. The role of odors in human communication -- 3.2.1. Human order convey a large panel of cues -- 3.2.2. Body orders reflect internal states -- 3.2.3. What are the functions of social smells in human daily life? -- 3.2.4. Human pheromones, fact or fiction? -- 3.3. The senses of smell and taste in the search for food and remedies -- 3.3.1. Interactions between senses and food in primates -- 3.3.2. Senses and self-medication in animals -- 3.3.3. Senses in human therapies -- 3.3.4. An evolutionary conception of the link between senses and health -- 3.4. Conclusions - the adaptive functions of the sense of smell in "microsmatic" species -- 3.5. Bibliography -- 4. Microbiota and Chemical Ecology. , 4.1. The protagonist microorganisms of chemical ecology -- 4.2. Strategies for the study of microbiota -- 4.2.1. How should the microbiota be characterized? -- 4.2.2. What tools are available to help understand the roles of the microbiota? -- 4.3. The molecular dialog of microorganisms -- 4.3.1. Language and social life of microorganisms -- 4.3.2. The AMPs, main actors in the equilibrium of bacterial communities -- 4.3.3. Fungi and bacteria communicate to better help each other -- 4.3.4. When helping each other degenerates into chemical warfare between bacteria and fungi -- 4.3.5. The Trichoderma fungi: heavy artillery against pathogenic fungi -- 4.4. Chemical communication between microorganisms and their hosts -- 4.4.1. Plant-bacteria relationships: essential interactions with different partners -- 4.4.2. Plants also establish intimate relations with fungi -- 4.4.3. Mutualist actinobacteria provide care to insects -- 4.4.4. Chemical communication between microorganisms and their host in the environment -- 4.5. Regulations and evolution of the interactions in changing ecosystems and environments -- 4.5.1. Contribution of chemical ecology to the understanding of biosynthesis mechanisms of chemical mediators -- 4.5.2. Metabolic networks: new tools for studying the evolution of host/microbiota interactions -- 4.6. Conclusions - from chemical ecology to future applications: impacts of the study of the microbiota -- 4.7. Bibliography -- 5. From Chemical Ecologyto Ecogeochemistry -- 5.1. Balance between primary and secondary metabolism -- 5.2. Role of secondary metabolites in biotic interactions and community structure -- 5.3. Secondary metabolites and ecosystem functioning: plant soil relation - brown food chain -- 5.4. Integration of biotic and abiotic dynamics: benthic marine microhabitats -- 5.5. Conclusions -- 5.6. Bibliography. , 6. Omics in Chemical Ecology -- 6.1. Introduction: the different "omic" technologies -- 6.2. From "omics" to signals: identifying new active molecules -- 6.3. From "omics" to the ecology of communities: identifying chemical interactions of organisms in their environment -- 6.4. From "omics" to molecular bases: revealing the genetic and molecular bases of chemical interactions -- 6.5. From "omics" to physiology: characterizing the modes of production and the modes of reception of active molecules -- 6.6. From "omics" to the role of environment: understanding the impact of biotic and abiotic factors on interactions -- 6.7. From "omics" to evolution: understanding and predicting the adaptive value of chemical interactions -- 6.8. Conclusions and perspectives -- 6.9. Bibliography -- 7. Metabolomic Contributions to Chemical Ecology -- 7.1. Definition of metabolomics -- 7.2. Different strategies of the metabolomic approaches -- 7.3. The different steps for conducting a metabolomic study -- 7.3.1. Experimental design and sampling -- 7.3.2. Analytical approaches -- 7.3.3. Data processing -- 7.4. Applications of metabolomics -- 7.4.1. Chemical biodiversity and chemotaxonomy -- 7.4.2. Study of the regulation and evolution of metabolic/ biosynthesis pathways -- 7.4.3. Contributions to functional ecology -- 7.4.4. Application of metabolomics to the study of environmental disturbances -- 7.5. Conclusions -- 7.6. Bibliography -- 8. Chemical, Biological and Computational Tools in Chemical Ecology -- 8.1. Chemical tools -- 8.1.1. Analytical tools of chromatography -- 8.1.2. Analytical approach by nuclear magnetic resonance -- 8.1.3. Secondary metabolite imagery techniques -- 8.2. Sequencing tools -- 8.2.1. Principles, strengths and limitations of NGS -- 8.2.2. Major domains of NGS applications -- 8.3. Databases: biodiversity in silico. , 8.3.1. Databases of chemical compounds and general ecology -- 8.3.2. Databases for the omics that can be used in chemical ecology -- 8.4. Conclusions -- 8.5. Bibliography -- 9. Academic and Economic Values of Understanding Chemical Communication -- 9.1. Nature as a model -- 9.2. Nature as a model for development of new molecules of interest -- 9.2.1. From chemical mediators to new bioactive structural archetypes -- 9.2.2. From chemical mediators to new bioactive structural archetypes -- 9.2.3. Chemical mediators and ligand/receptor interactions: to the discovery of new cellular receptors and biochemical tools -- 9.3. Chemical ecology and sustainable development -- 9.3.1. Bio-control -- 9.3.2. Bio-inspired chemistry and remedial phytotechnologies -- 9.4. Conclusions -- 9.5. Bibliography -- Conclusion: Looking Forward: the Chemical Ecology of Tomorrow -- Glossary -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.